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is as well. and cnn politics reporter to koppen. former business partner, manafort, rick gates maybe called this week. he is considered a star witness. in exchange for his guilty plea. what is to be expected from him? yes, that s right, fred. i mean, in many ways, this is sort of what everyone has been waiting for the trial to build up to. he was the man who is sort of on the inside so to speak on all of these different pieces of the puzzle that have been being put together by this testimony from, you know, from accountants, from the various sort of external factors in manafort s world. but this is the man who was, you know, supposedly according to prosecutors side by side with manafort as much as this went down and may be the one to testify, you know, exactly what he was thinking and doing and intending, which is so important when you re building this criminal case. you know, he also is sort of the connection to trump world. that we haven t seen as much. and that s what has t ....
The target in this investigation. he is and he knows it. it s getting closer and closer. we ve been told by sean spicer and by sarah huckabee and other people in the administration his tweets are pronouncements by the president. they are official statements, official statements, and, fred, they go to his state of mind. any one tweet in particular may not in and of itself be a crime. when you look at it, when you look at hi directing and telling sessions to stop the investigation, stop the investigation, fred, that is when the president tells someone you should stop the investigation, forget about the fact that sessions can t do it. you got to focus. when the president tells someone they should do someone, that s a direction. that s how comey took it. that s how sessions is taking it. we don t need the carnival ....